Oct. 30. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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which is on very stout, drawing-paper, interleaved, 

 and admirably printed with ink of a fine colour. 



F.H. 

 Notting Hill. 



GOVERNMENT OF ST. CHRISTOPHEn's IN 1662. 



(Vol. vi., p. 137.) 



Ursula will find the chronology of St. Christo- 

 pher's in F. W. N. Bayley's Four Years' Residence 

 in the West Indies, published in London by Wm. 

 Kidd in 1832, pp.669. 680. 



May I be permitted to call Ursula's attention 

 ■to the following extracts from this chronological 

 table, important as serving to settle the question 

 which has arisen between us with reference to the 

 government of St. Christopher's in 1662. It would 

 now appear that Ursula and myself were induced 

 to draw an erroneous conclusion, from giving too 

 much credence to our different authorities. St. 

 Christopher's, at the period referred to, was jointly 

 held by the English and French colonists, who had 

 their respective governors. A fig-tree was also 

 the " boundary mark" of their separate possessions. 

 Therefore, King Charles II. did not enjoy the 

 sovereignty of the island, as Ursula supposed; 

 neither could the Knights of Malta, as I have 

 written. 



*' 1537. English population of the island estimated 

 at between 12,000 and 13,000 souls. 



1639. By the consent of the French and English 

 governors, a proclamation was issued for- 

 bidding the cultivation of tobacco for 

 eighteen months. 



1652. Sir George Ascue on the part of the Protector 

 arrives off this island ; the English of St. 

 Kitts submit without opposition to the 

 authority of Cromwell. 



1655. Regular articles respecting the division of 

 lands in St. Kitts, and the various rights 

 and privileges of the English and French 

 inhabitants, were drawn up and signed by 

 the governors on behalf of their respective 

 populations." 



I am unable to inform Ursula who was the 

 English Governor of St. Kitts in 1662 ; but in 

 1666, Colonel Wats held that situation, and was 

 killed in an action, as was De Sales, the French 

 governor, shortly after information had reached 

 the island that war had been declared between 

 England and France. W. W. 



The island of St. Christopher's, at the period 

 referred to, was held by the English and Knights 

 of Malta, and not by the English and French, as 

 Mr. Breen has supposed. The Order of St. John 

 of Jerusalem held a proprietary rule over the 

 island of St. Kitts, as they did over the other 

 islands which Mr. Breen has named. Of this he 

 does not appear to have been aware when his note 



now before me was written. Mr. Breen remarks 

 that the partition of the island took place in 1627. 

 Bayley, in his Chronology of St. Christophers, 

 states it to have been two years previously, that 

 is, in 1625 : 



" In 1623, Mr. Thomas Warner arrived at St. Chris- 

 topher's from Virginia, and found three Frenchmen. 

 In 1625, M. D'Enambuc, with some of his country- 

 men, arrives from Dieppe, and determines to establish 

 a colony with the English in St. Kitts. In 1625, 

 D'Enambuc and Warner agree together to inhabit the 

 island, and project a division of lands." 



Lastly, Mr. Breen has stated that the partition 

 of St. Christopher's continued till the peace at 

 Utrecht in 1713. To this I would add not unin- 

 terruptedly, as during the period which transpired 

 between 1625 and 1713, the French had been 

 once expelled from the island by the English, and 

 the English twice by the French. If not tres- 

 passing too much on the space of " N. & Q.," and 

 on the patience of its readers, I hope I may be 

 excused for taking this last quotation from Mr. 

 Bayley's chronological table : 



" 1666. In a war between the English and French, 

 the former were completely routed. The 

 French gaining sole possession, the English 

 were either sent off the island, or left of ifieir 

 own accord. 



1667. The English made an unsuccessful attack on 

 St. Kitts. 



1669. In consequence of the Revolution in England 

 in 1668, the French declaring themselves 

 in favour of James, attacked the English, 

 and expelled them from the island, 



1702. War declared between England and France. 



English fleet arrives off St. Kitts, and » 

 Count de Gennes, governor of the remaining 

 French lands, surrenders all to the English. 

 The French are sent off the island. " 



w.w. 



Garrison Library, Malta. 



SIR ABRAHAM SHIPMAIC. 



(Vol. vi., p. 360.) 



p. C. S. S. begs leave to remind Tewars that, on 

 consulting either the Modern Universal History, 

 or Harris's Collection of Voyages, he will find that 

 Sir Abraham Shipman was the commodore of a 

 naval force of five ships, which, after the marriage 

 of Charles II. to Catharine of Braganza, was des- 

 patched to Bombay, to require the transfer of that 

 settlement to England, according to the terms of 

 the marriage treaty. James Ley, Earl of Marl- 

 borough, commanded the expedition, which arrived 

 at Bombay in September, 1663. The Portuguese 

 governor, incited by the bigotry of the clergy, re- 

 fused to surrender the island to a government and 

 nation of heretics. Lord Marlborough therefore, 

 in January, 1664, returned to England with two 



